Children are happy to be creative - sculpt, draw, make applications. In preparation for the new year, you can make beautiful decorations and garlands with your child and other family members so that your apartment or house will be transformed. Joint creativity unites, and the winter holidays are a great occasion to gather the whole family for an interesting activity.

What can be done from improvised means

  • The simplest paper crafts, the first thing you can do for mom out of paper.

In order to make a snowflake, mom just needs to bend the paper in several layers and cut out the desired shape with scissors. Snowflakes, as a rule, delight kids. With your help, a child can fold paper, but scissors are best used by an adult. , for example, a snow-covered hut with Christmas trees or paper flowers.

  • A beautiful and fragrant garland can be made from orange peels.

To do this, you need the peels themselves, scissors, and also a thread. If you come across thick crusts, you can partially remove the inner white layer. Then you need to cut out different figures with sharp scissors, for example, stars, a crescent, flowers, snowmen or snowflakes. The next step is to dry your figurines in the oven. To do this, mom needs to lay out the cut out figures on paper, press them with a press and send them to a warm oven. The last stage is stringing the figurines on a thread. Here you will need a spool of thread, a needle and a little dexterity. Such an unusual garland can decorate furniture, walls or your beautiful Christmas tree.

  • A garland of pine cones will look beautiful and fabulous in winter.

It is done easily, it is enough to consistently tie the cones with a rope or a thick thread. Cones can be additionally decorated with sparkles, tinsel, cotton wool.

  • From soft socks you can make a simple snowman figurine.

To do this, it is enough for mom to take a sock, fill it with cotton wool or padding polyester to the heel, make constrictions with elastic bands for hair in the center of the sock and in the upper part, conditionally forming the torso and head. From above, you can cut off the excess and sew. Next, the snowman should sew on button eyes and make a nose out of a piece of fabric. You can additionally glue a hat made of paper. Such a snowman will serve as a wonderful gift for family and friends.

  • Salt dough is an excellent material for joint creativity with a child.

Crafts made from this material are stored for a long time, in addition, they can be painted with the baby or let him show his imagination.

  • It is no less exciting to make gifts from clay or plasticine.

You can help your child make simple plasticine applications on paper, fashion three-dimensional figures of characters from winter fairy tales - a snowman, a Christmas tree, or, for example, a bunny.

  • Disposable plastic cups, thick thread and foil will help mom create beautiful New Year's bells.

To do this, you need to make a hole in the bottom of the glasses, pass a thread there and tie a knot, and wrap the glasses themselves with foil.

  • Fir cones and acorns make funny little animals or little men, as well as beautiful composition crafts. For example, you can make a hedgehog figurine from a cone and plasticine. To do this, it is enough to fashion a muzzle, eyes, and also a nose from plasticine, and fix a bump on top.
  1. In order for creativity to be successful, the child must be in a good mood, cheerful, healthy, well-fed and cheerful. If the kid for some reason does not want to participate in the creation of crafts, you should not force him to do so. Remember that creativity is a dialogue with the Cosmos. The child, just like you, may simply not be in the mood at this moment.
  2. Choose a comfortable place for you and your baby. Mom should prepare all the necessary materials in advance and put them in a place accessible to adults. All sharp and piercing objects should lie so that the baby could not reach them.
  3. For garlands, a thick thread or thin twine is suitable, and it is better to choose a needle with a thick eye. Cones for creativity should be intact, not very large and without flaws. The most suitable glue for children's creativity is PVA. It is safe, it is easy for them to work and teach the child to create their own little masterpieces. If you are working with egg shells or paper trays, for example, they need to be handled carefully. Wash the shell well with soap and warm the tray in the oven for several minutes.

The joint work of mother and child not only entertains, but also develops the baby, teaches him patience, as well as interaction with other family members, work in a “team”, creates an excellent festive mood.

And what crafts for the new year did you do with your child?

In the days of the Soviet shortage, a child could feel fabulously happy with a round dance near the Christmas tree and a paper bag with several chocolates and a couple of tangerines. You will not surprise modern children with sweets or exotic fruits. But, nevertheless, the task of turning the New Year into a fairy tale is quite solvable, you just need to strain your own imagination a little.

Let's create a story together

A fairly common mistake is the desire of parents to protect the baby from New Year's Eve troubles: preparation for the holiday can be made no less interesting than the holiday itself. Decorate the Christmas tree with your baby, and at the same time the whole room, let it turn into a magic castle during the holidays.

You can buy everything you need for this in the store, or you can use simple tools that are always at hand: the effect of snow-covered windows can be achieved with the help of small foam chips, pin snowflakes cut out of paper on the curtains, and decorate the walls with shiny tinsel. You just need to create the right atmosphere, and then the children's imagination will connect and turn an ordinary city apartment into a particle of a fairy-tale world.

Take care of New Year's outfits, sew them together with your child or buy them. When purchasing a gift from Santa Claus, remember that it must be magical: do not give your child clothes or shoes, what magic is in a pair of shoes, even very beautiful ones? It is advisable to find out in advance what the baby would like to receive as a gift. Invite him, for example, to write a note to Santa Claus and put it on the windowsill.

The fairy tale can start a little earlier: celebrate St. Nicholas Day with your baby. This will give you an opportunity to get comfortable with the role of a wizard, and your child to prepare for further miracles. And, of course, make sure that the child finds a sock with a gift near his crib, and in the mailbox - a letter from St. Nicholas, sent from his residence.

What to Consider

In order for the holiday to be successful, it is necessary to take into account some features of children's thinking. So, for example, finding a gift from Santa Claus under the Christmas tree, a child can ask you a completely logical question: where is the gift from mom and dad? Think ahead about how you will respond to it. Maybe it makes sense to buy two gifts that complement each other?

New Year is the time of children's holidays. Thinking about the menu of the festive table, do not try to buy expensive exotic products - children will not be able to appreciate them. It is better to let these be the simplest dishes, but originally decorated in accordance with the New Year theme. Take care of the holiday scenario: fun games and contests, bright carnival costumes will be able to create an atmosphere of a fairy tale.

Santa Claus is the main New Year's character, loved by all children. Are you going to surprise your child and invite the "real" Santa Claus? But if your baby is still quite a baby, then the visit of a gray-bearded old man in unusual clothes with a huge staff can scare him. Try to first introduce him to the fairy-tale grandfather in absentia: go to a children's performance or a New Year's party, and then the appearance of a magical guest will become the main New Year's miracle for the child.

2020 is coming soon. How quickly time flies! But not only years are running away, but also hours, minutes, seconds. If you want to feel the approach of the New Year in advance, meet it without fuss and haste, start decorating your home right now. New Year's decor ideas are already in the air, and many of them can be suggested by children who will gladly take part in this pleasant and exciting process. Moreover, the children do not need to be urged, rushed, and you yourself can safely add something new every day and gradually bring the festive interior to perfection. You may have to buy something, but most of the decorations can be made with your own hands from what is in the house.

Color matters: the main tone of the New Year's decor

Recommendations for choosing a color scheme cannot serve as the ultimate truth. New Year's decor should harmoniously fit into the existing interior and only give it an elegant, festive look. But some tips may be helpful.

Green, the color of the needles, will be present in any case. To dilute it, you need to attract not the entire rainbow palette, but only two or three contrasting tones. It is better to give preference to New Year's colors - red, gold, silver. Saturated, bright shades of purple, blue, turquoise also look good.

You can arrange everything in one color scheme - this is a very effective and stylish option. Just don't forget compatibility. If the interior of the apartment is designed in cold colors, choose the appropriate range and silver, add gold and New Year's red to warm shades.

Several Christmas trees in the house - easy and simple

You don’t want to hang tinsel and garlands on the walls, and you don’t need to. But the New Year without a Christmas tree is not a holiday, so we will definitely set the forest beauty. Everything is simple here: we prepared a free place, audited last year's toys, determined what needs to be bought, and you can decorate the main one.

But, if you approach the issue creatively, you can not buy the missing toys, but make them yourself. And one more thing - in every room you can find a place for a homemade Christmas tree, and let the holiday be felt throughout the apartment at once.

Additional Christmas trees can be:

  • - from beads, garlands, photographs,
  • from improvised materials - wooden sticks, cones, pasta,
  • - tinsel, rain, sweets and everything that comes to mind is glued onto the cone,
  • knitted or collected from small balls,
  • beautifully shaped branches with silver or gold plating,
  • ordinary houseplants, properly decorated.

Only let the Christmas trees be not of the same type, but different in texture, shape and method of execution.

Now, toys. Made with love and imagination, they will turn your New Year into the warmest, most sincere and cozy holiday. You can wrap simple Christmas balls with shreds of fabric, knit clothes from colored yarn, paint them with acrylics, make compositions from cones, funny felt figures. Bake in the form of stars and Christmas trees with a small hole for the ribbon and hang it on the branches - both tasty and beautiful.


Decorate windows and doors

Windows are the eyes of the house, the door is the face. Let your apartment look at the surrounding world and welcome guests with joy.

Let's start with windows:

  • place compositions of their branches, cones and candles on the windowsills,
  • lay out and hang bright Christmas balls,
  • cut out from plastic bottles or thick paper,
  • make garlands of flags, funny figurines, Christmas socks.

If you are fond of or just familiar with this technique, create fabulous illuminated, magical figurines and winter scenes.

Doors are usually decorated with wreaths. Dream up, create your own wreath or improve an existing one. Everything goes:

  • dried citrus slices
  • winter berries - mountain ash, cranberries,
  • cut flower buds,
  • bright lollipops,
  • corks, beads,
  • cones, coniferous branches, ribbons,
  • bows, tinsel, garlands.

A wreath can decorate not only a door, but also a wall, window, furniture or a chandelier.

Christmas lighting and table setting

New Year is unthinkable without candles. Let there be many of them, make beauty with your own hands. Arrange white and colored candles in glass vases, glasses, ordinary jars, one-third filled with sea salt or red berries, wrap with cinnamon sticks, cover with green twigs.

A composition with live fire will come in handy anywhere, and especially in the center of a festive dinner. It is better to serve the table in the same colors that prevail in interior decoration. Each plate can be provided with the guest's name or a small wish card. Dishes to your taste, but it is very desirable to depict some kind of New Year's symbol on each.

Decorate your home with love, connect all the household and you will have a real pleasure. And also - a nice bonus in the form of quite tangible savings, since you can create all the New Year's beauty with your own hands. Happy winter evenings and Happy New Year!

“They say that on New Year's Eve, whatever you wish, everything will always happen, everything will always come true” ... Who is waiting for the New Year the most? Of course, children! And we, parents, are ready for anything to make the holiday unforgettable. the site offers moms and dads a short return to childhood and celebrate the magical New Year with their children.

Calendar

We suggest starting preparations for the New Year by compiling a festive calendar. You will need a large sheet of paper, a ruler and colored pencils. Divide the sheet into even squares - their number depends on how many days there will be in the calendar. Every day on the calendar will be filled with some important pre-New Year's work, such as decorating a house or buying a Christmas tree. You can draw up a calendar both a month and a week before the New Year. It all depends on your imagination and the number of New Year's things that you come up with for yourself. Every evening, a child, satisfied with his New Year's accomplishments, will be able to cross out one square and wait for the next magical day.

Letter to Santa Claus

As you know, Santa Claus brings gifts only to those children who have behaved well all year. You do not want to be left without a gift with your beloved child? Then urgently sit down with your kids at the table and write a letter to Santa Claus about how many good, important and necessary things your children have done over the past year. Let them tell you exactly what they want to find under the Christmas tree on New Year's Eve, talk about their successes and the most important events of the outgoing year. Santa Claus will read all the messages with pleasure and will definitely put in his bag the very gift that the baby dreams of.

DIY magic

Handmade items are highly valued these days. New Year is a great occasion to show all the fantasy that you are only capable of. Postcards, gifts, Christmas decorations, garlands, New Year's home decor, fancy dress - all this you and your children can do yourself. If your own imagination can’t tell you anything more original than paper snowflakes, feel free to go to the themed handmade communities on the Internet for inspiration. Now they are just full of New Year and Christmas ideas. You just have to soberly assess your capabilities and plan man-made miracles in your New Year's calendar.

Musical accompaniment

Before the New Year, even listening to music and watching cartoons can become magical. Collect New Year and Christmas songs in an original playlist and turn it on every time you start working in your creative workshop. Believe me, songs filled with the spirit of the holiday will give you a good mood and inspiration for creativity. In addition, they will help children fully armed to meet the request of Santa Claus to sing a New Year's song. In addition to music, according to the age of your children, you can also collect a collection of New Year's films and cartoons. Since children love to watch TV, let them get in the festive mood in the company of the wonderful "New Year's Adventures of Masha and Vitya", "Twelve Months", "The Grinch, Stole Christmas", "Snowman Postman" and many other films and cartoons.

New Year's master class

To take or not to take children to Christmas trees is a purely individual matter. In any case, we advise you to leave trips to New Year's performances for the winter holidays, but for now, go together to one of the many city cafes. But not at all in order to have a delicious meal, but to draw the most beautiful Christmas tree, bake the most delicious, come up with your own carnival mask, become the hero of the New Year's story, have plenty of fun and, of course, take home a delicious gift. Look for passwords and appearances of New Year's master classes on city poster sites.

Christmas tree

What is the New Year without a Christmas tree? When the green beauty takes pride of place in the center of the room, the feast is declared open. Despite the fact that Zhenya Lukashin decorated the Christmas tree on December 31 in The Irony of Fate, we don’t have to wait that long. To create a New Year's mood, you can and should decorate the Christmas tree in advance. For example, when a Christmas tree market opens near your house. Decorating a Christmas tree is an extremely responsible occupation, and children are always proud when their parents entrust them with this important mission. By the way, you can introduce a tradition of inventing a new way to decorate the Christmas tree every year: as an alternative to traditional toys, homemade decorations, origami paper figures, flower garlands, soft toys, sweets, cookies, dried fruits ... yes, almost everything that comes to hand!

Santa Claus on call

How many terrible stories we heard about drunken Santa Clauses, who instead of joy brought only disappointment to the kids. If you are determined to call Santa Claus, it should only be a proven Santa. Otherwise, all the magic you carefully build will crumble like a house of cards. Before inviting Santa Claus, ask him to tell you the scenario of his stay with you and think about whether it will be interesting for your children. If you do everything right, the kids will be delighted.

Main night of the year

The debate about at what age children should celebrate the New Year under the chimes can continue endlessly. Each family has its own opinion and traditions. If you still decide to leave the children to have fun at night, do not forget to get a good night's sleep. Even better, put the kids to bed in the evening, as usual, and wake up half an hour before midnight to make a New Year's wish with the whole family and clink glasses of champagne and juice. Immediately after the “official” part, go to games, contests and walks with sparklers: children, unlike adults, do not like to stay too long. Well, for those kids who sleep well on New Year's Eve, all the main miracles will begin on the morning of January 1st. We hope you don't miss them!

New Year through the eyes of a child is a holiday that looks like a real fairy tale. Its embodiment is in our hands!

Using the example of my family, I will tell you how you can create a New Year's atmosphere. Usually, children receive the most gifts twice a year: on their birthday and under the Christmas tree. If in the first case they order them for dad and mom, and everything is simple, then in the second case, difficulties begin to arise. Sometimes they are secretly sent by letters to Santa Claus, or even simply guessed in a whisper, lying in the dark.

How can parents find out the secret children's desires, and even turn it all into a wonderful fairy tale?

Around the end of November (so that there is time to fulfill all the children's dreams) I seat the children to write letters to Santa Claus. Of course, at the same time, you need to inspire the child, develop interest and imagination in him! Let it be festive, unusual letters, colorful, figuratively cut with scissors, such as to surprise Grandfather Frost! And then these miracle letters must be sent by putting ... in the freezer! At night, they miraculously disappear, moving into their parents' closets.

And what's next?

Found out what your child wants, and that's it, went shopping? But no! You need to write the answer to the child.

I print out a sheet with New Year's pictures around the edges and write in handwriting with beautiful curls that I received the letter, they say, wait for me on New Year's Eve with gifts. And then I decorate the sheet with sparkles with a brush, and add some confetti to the envelope. And, of course, I seal it in a real envelope and put it in the mailbox, arranging it so that we open it in front of the children so that they can see that everything is real! You have no idea what a sensation these letters made! How much happiness, squealing and joy! These moments alone are worth living for!

New Year's decorations created together with the child will make it unforgettable and add a festive mood. Here are some ideas:

Christmas tree toys (Christmas tree decorations).

In addition to buying ordinary store toys, you should definitely make toys with your own hands. The Christmas tree from this will be more sincere, cozy, homely.

For example, buy the simplest balloons and offer to decorate them together. Paint with markers and paints, stick on rhinestones, beads, whatever comes to your mind! These balls are priceless.

New Year's angels.

Look for what you have in the bins? I collect different nets, ribbons and packaging from bouquets and gifts - these are real treasures for children's creativity. We cut out the contours of future angels from cardboard - a triangle at the bottom and a circle at the top, so that it looks like a keyhole in shape. On this base we glue halos, clothes, wings from improvised materials. And you can fix them on the Christmas tree with paper clips.

Gingerbread and salt dough decorations.

From gingerbread dough, you can fashion various figures, then bake, cover with icing, sprinkle with culinary decorations and also hang on a Christmas tree. But such decorations will definitely have to be eaten. And if you want to save crafts, then salt dough comes to the rescue.

It is easy to work with, like plasticine, and holds its shape perfectly. Santa Claus, snowman, house, month - sculpting toys is a pleasure! And do not forget to immediately make a hole for the rope until they dry out. We make them with a cocktail tube. When the finished crafts are dry, they must be baked in the oven, and then painted. To do this, you can use mom’s unnecessary nail polishes, it’s especially great to cover them with glitter varnish on top.

Gingerbread house and openwork Christmas tree decorations.

Since we started talking about the test, I’ll tell you about one more of our traditions. December 28-29 we bake a gingerbread house and decorate it with sweets. And on New Year's Eve, children have a tea party under the New Year tree and eat it. Imagine how much fantasy can be realized when creating this sweet miracle!

Sometimes I paint it with icing. Icing is quite simple.

  1. Powdered sugar is whipped with protein and we get a mass that can be put in a pastry bag and drawn by squeezing from a neatly cut corner. It can also be used for other purposes - to make openwork air decorations for the Christmas tree.
  2. To do this, we give the children sheets of paper and pencils and ask them to draw 4-6 toys on one sheet.
  3. Then we cover the sheets with cling film and, according to the contours drawn by the children, draw on top with icing.
  4. We leave to dry, the mass hardens and becomes hard, but brittle, so be careful!

Snowflakes.

On the tree, they look especially impressive. It would seem that the simplest thing is to cut them out of paper. But how the guys like this activity! Be sure to arrange a “night of snowflakes”. (Prepare scissors for each family member and hold a competition for the most beautiful winter star.

And here is one more tip from my piggy bank: before you disassemble the Christmas tree and put away the toys in the boxes, let the child draw how his New Year's days went. We sign the sheet, put the date and remove it along with the decorations. How interesting it is to get these drawings on the next New Year, especially when a sufficient number of them have already accumulated, to consider, laugh at uneven scribbles, enjoy the memories.

Happiness and creativity to your families!

Happy New Year to you!